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  1. 393: Table Talk

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    05/23/25
    8 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm In this episode, we discuss how pre-modern church history, the Industrial Revolution, therapeutics, language, corporate culture, and the flight of heretics from Europe in the 17th-18th century affected contemporary Western churches.
    393: Table Talk

  2. Are Lutherans Protestant?

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    05/21/25
    5 mins
    By Caleb Keith | Scott Keith | Bruce Hillman | Adam Francisco
    Lutherans started the Protestant Reformation. However, they shy away from the term today.
    Are Lutherans Protestant?

  3. 392: Keller - What Is the Church?

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    05/16/25
    11 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Come Together, Right Now… In this episode, we read from Tim Keller’s sermon, which asks, “What is the Church?” We discuss the relationship between churches and culture, what the church is and isn’t, where we locate faith, whether Christian faith changes one’s values, and much more.
    392: Keller - What Is the Church?

  4. The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: The Reformation Sermon, or, A History of Talking in Church Part 2

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    05/10/25
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for May 10-11, 2025
    The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: The Reformation Sermon, or, A History of Talking in Church Part 2

  5. Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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    04/30/25
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Huguenots and their disastrous American colonies.
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025

  6. 387: Flacius - Adiaphora and Tyranny

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    04/12/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Can’t You See. In this episode, we read the Lutheran theologian Matthias Flacius, and discuss inter-church debates, the Lord’s Supper as ground zero for most church conflicts, the consequences of compromise in matters of faith, the limits of love, and when it’s time to push away from the table and go into prayer.
    387: Flacius - Adiaphora and Tyranny

  7. 386: Pastoral Debrief with a bit of Flacius

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    04/04/25
    8 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Kick Out the Jams. In this episode, we focus on the raw, real work of life in the parish—the ordinary burdens, the hidden insecurities, and the quiet faith that holds it all together. We explore the distinction between philosophy and theology and why attempts to fuse them often leave both diminished. There’s talk of reformation—its drama, its necessity, and its cost. We reflect on the pervasive victim-perpetrator dynamic that shapes so much of modern life and how the gospel when rightly preached, breaks that cycle. At the heart of it all is this: the power of Christ’s mercy to open what we’ve shut tight, to drive out the bitterness we’ve made into habit, and to speak a word stronger than shame.
    386: Pastoral Debrief with a bit of Flacius

  8. What Is the Church?

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    03/06/25
    5 mins
    By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith
    Erasmus accused Luther of being outside of the church and having a novel understanding of Scripture.
    What Is the Church?

  9. What is the Remnant?

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    02/24/25
    5 mins
    By Caleb Keith | Steven Paulson
    In what way is the Church a remnant? Luther uses God's preservation of a remnant of faithful teachers and preachers throughout scripture and the Church against Erasmus and his argument that Luther stands alone.
    What is the Remnant?

  10. Episode 312: Formalism (Ritualism)

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    02/24/25
    7 mins
    By Wade Johnston | Michael Berg
    In episode THREE HUNDRED AND TWELVE, Mike, Jason, and Wade discuss the Protestant fear of formalism, or ritualism?
    Episode 312: Formalism (Ritualism)

  11. Did Martin Luther Start a New Religion?

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    02/17/25
    6 mins
    By Scott Keith | Caleb Keith | Adam Francisco | Bruce Hillman
    In this episode of the Thinking Fellows podcast, the Fellows answer, "Did Martin Luther invent a new religion?"
    Did Martin Luther Start a New Religion?

  12. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair

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    02/09/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    You May Be Right… In this episode of Banned Books, we read Anselm of Canterbury’s Meditation on Sin and Penance. We discuss the consequences of sin, the Fountain of Mercy, Jesus’ excuses, the doctrine of simul iustus et peccator, theological presuppositions, and how we speak influences our behavior.
    380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair